writing is hard

anyways, I'm still so angry over that Deadline article about Disney nuking Ncuti Gatwa's era of Doctor Who because of "woke" (not even kidding), because they received "overwhelming" feedback that the show was "too woke" for international audiences. It will never not piss me the fuck off how woke was/is literally aave for being politically aware that's been so co-opted by white establishment conservatives that this bastardised co-opted colonised concept of "woke" is now weaponised against Black people, people of colour and other marginalised people to justify casting us down and out. A literal fuckinf alien was played by a Black gay actor and old white people lost their shit and now a 60 yr old show is basically dead because some white people hated they weren't being directly pandered to. I'm never not gonna be pissed the fuck OFF

Hey, people in the comments who said I was wrong about the show being dead because I could see the writing on the wall months ago....well, now there's the official announcement. I really hope that no one ever forgets that Doctor Who was cancelled because of anti-Blackness, racism, and corporate greed.

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there are many fat gay women which is basically awesome

clap. clap for fat gay women

Love not having a ”””fandom””” specific blog. Something new will just consume my mind and everyone has to accept it. My house

Nichard names: when you incorrectly elongate someone's name for humorous effect.

you have to forgive the printer because it's one of the most machine-ass machines we interact with on a day to day basis. that thing says kerchunk. hardly anything says kerchunk these days. you can't get mad at her when she kerchunks up a little.

Crazy that tech has gotten so bad that we're doing printer forgiveness now

Well, well, well. If it isn't the consequences of someone else's actions that I am directly impacted and severely affected by

i hope she's doing well.

popular high fantasy franchises looove having at least one visibly monstrous species that is like a vaguely racist caricature of a nondescript indigenous tribe with a mercenary culture of Honor and Battle and Only The Strong Survive etc etc

no adventurer ever comes across a village of big nonhuman creatures who live in the Untamed Wilds or belong to a nomadic civilization who are just like. chilling. they always have some kind of horrific stereotypical backwards culture thing going on like leaving their sick and elderly to die in the wilderness or doing supermisogyny on their women that the adventurer has to intervene on. and its like the mcu villain ass "they had good intentions but they went too far" narrative thing where you cant point this out without someone being like so you think its good that the orc society is doing supermisogyny 🤔and its like well no but you see a writer wrote the supermisogyny so the hero would have a good reason to invade the secluded tribe and teach them his value system and rescue the strangely sexy orc woman whose character design mysteriously conforms to human beauty standards when the guy orcs dont so he can free her from her life of savage orcish supermisogyny and give her a life of civilized regular misogyny.

actually dont know why i specified fantasy when scifi loves doing this too. perhaps all genre fiction is still struggling to get out from under the influence of the early 20th century pulp adventure novel.

Just spent 45 minutes researching what a specific street in a city smells like in october so i could write the word "damp." the word is in the final draft. it is doing its job. it cost me 45 minutes and a mild obsession with historical weather records. worth it. the word is perfect. you would not believe how hard i worked on that word.

The fact that antisemites are using the word "noticing" and "noticing patterns" as dogwhistles is annoying because I do actually notice a lot of stuff, patterns included, and one of the most obvious patterns I've noticed to date is that all antisemitic rhetoric makes no sense if you think critically about it for 5 seconds. Often less

A TERF liked this post so I just want to clarify that another pattern I've noticed is the massive overlap between anti-trans rhetoric and antisemitic rhetoric